22:44
London's Underground network will shut down this week for the second time in two months after talks again broke down in a dispute over all night services, trade unions said today. There will be no Tube train services from Wednesday evening and all day on Thursday after three unions rejected...
22:43
The Allahabad High Court today stayed for four weeks the bailable warrant issued against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by a Amethi court for his alleged inflammatory speech in UP during Lok Sabha elections. The division bench of the court permitted Kejriwal's counsel to move a fresh...
21:54
A body of a top militant commander was spotted and fished out from a nullah in north Kashmir Baramulla district, reports Mukhtar Ahmad/Rediff.com from Srinagar. A police spokesman in Srinagar said body of Tariq Ahmad Mir was fished out from Ferozepur nullah near Sumbal. The spokesman said Tariq...
21:49
Amid AAP government's standoff with the police on a range of issues, the Delhi Assembly today recommended setting up of an inquiry commission to probe alleged police inaction in cases of sexual harassment, stalking and voyeurism since February 2013 when a stringent anti-rape law had come into...
21:46
A delegation of Film and Television Institute of India students protesting against the appointment of TV actor Gajendra Chauhan as its Chairman, today met senior officials of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, though no breakthrough was achieved in the ongoing logjam. The students of...
21:30
From Rediff Archives: A 2001 interview with NSCN-IM leader Thuingaleng Muivah, who was present in New Delhi as PM Narendra Modi made an announcement of the historic Naga accord. Image: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with NSCN-IM leader Thuingaleng Muivah at the signing ceremony of the accord....
21:12
Hours after the Modi government announced the historic Naga peace accord, leading journalist Shekhar Gupta posted on his Faceboook, Just yesterday the Army spokesman reminded us of the heroism of Capt Eric James Tucker of Maratha Light Infantry, who won his Ashok Chakra fighting Naga rebels on...
20:56
Just in: Congress Vice President tweets, We stand with each of our suspended MPs.Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan suspended 25 Congress MPs for five days for causing grave disorder in Parliament.The truth will not be silenced in the case of corruption scams either where the Prime Minister is...
20:41
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced that the state government will provide Rs 4 lakh each to the families of those killed in flood and storm. While visiting a school at Ashok Nagar in North 24 Parganas district which is being operated as a relief...
20:20
Just in: Prime Minister Narendra Modi briefs Opposition leaders of peace accord with NSCN, the Naga militant group. Modi speaks to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and former PM Manmohan Singh about the historic agreement. He also speaks to West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, BSP leader Mayawati and CPI-M...
20:10
Pakistan Prime Minister's adviser on national security and foreign affairs Sartaj Aziz is likely to travel to India on August 23 for a meeting between the national security advisers of the two countries. The visit so far is on. Let us see what it leads to, government sources in Islamabad said....
19:49
External Affairs Minister SushmaSwaraj has asked Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan to meet Geeta, a deaf and mute Indian woman stuck in that country for more than a decade. Responding to Pakistan's human rights activist AnsarBurney's tweet about the mute Indian girl who had...
19:27
From Wednesday, the rape case against spiritual guru Asaram Bapu will be heard in the prison in Rajasthan where he has spent nearly two years. A court today took the unusual decision after considering the huge crowds during his court appearances. Trial court judge Manoj...
19:21
India will submit to Pakistan evidence that the three terrorists who carried out attacks in Gurdaspur had come from across the border during the proposed National Security Advisor-level talks here later this month. Sources privy to the development said the Indian side could also bring up...
19:00
Modi lamented that it took so long for the peace efforts to culminate into action. The PM said, Unfortunately, the Naga problem has taken so long to resolve because we did not understand each other.Since becoming PM last year, peace, security and economic transformation of North East has been...
18:55
After being presented a jacket by the Nagas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, The Naga political issue lingered for six decades, taking a huge toll on generations of people. I sincerely thank Isak Swu, Muivah and other Naga leaders for their wisdom and courage.Modi added that he admired...
18:52
Muivah added, Under PM Narendra Modi we have come close to understand each other and worked out a new relation between the two parties. Nagas will forever remember you for your statesmanship.
18:52
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has signed the historic Naga Peace Accord with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland- Isak-Muivah. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the presence of Home Minister Rajnath Singh and NSA Ajit Doval, signed the accord with NSCN-IM's Thuingaleng...
18:40
A court in Delhi said there was sufficient material to proceed with the criminal defamation complaint filed by a Delhi police constable against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for using a slang 'thulla' to describe policemen. The court fixed the matter for October 5 for recording...
18:31
Something's up at the Prime Minister's residence. Raising eyebrows, PM Narendra Modi tweeted, Today, we would be witness to an important & landmark event at 6.30pm at RCR. I will be making a special announcement at 6:30 PM from RCR.Watch this space for further updates
17:59
Facing a tough time in Parliament with the Opposition refusing to budge, the Narendra Modi-led government has decided to back down on the land bill, accepting the Congress's suggestions, said sources.Last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced major changes to the law that was cleared in...
17:33
A US hunting tourist has provoked an online backlash after posting photos of herself with several dead animals in South Africa. Sabrina Corgatelli, a senior accountant and hunting enthusiast from Idaho, posted pictures of herself with animals including a giraffe that she shot dead on...
17:00
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced that the state government will provide Rs four lakh each to the families of those killed in flood and storm. Banerjee said the state will give Rs 2 lakh to those who losttheir limbs and Rs 60,000 for other injured. She added that those who had lost their...
16:53
As a measure of solidarity, members of the Aam Aadmi Party and the Trinamool Congress have decided to boycott Lok Sabha for 5 days -- the same amount of time that the Congress members have been suspended for. Speaker of the Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan suspended 25 Congress members...
16:41
Reacting to the news of 25 Congress MPs being suspended, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said, It is a black day for democracy.The Congress president's reaction comes after Speaker Sumitra Mahajan suspended the MPs for 5 days for persistently, wilfully obstructing the House.
16:22
The Centre has reportedly agreed to help a deaf-and-mute young Indian girl, who has been in Pakistan for at least 15 years, unite with her family members.According to reports, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj confirmed the development on Monday by tweeting that the Indian High Commission...
16:12
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan suspends 25 Congress MPs suspended from the house for five days over repeated disruptions. The Congress has 44 MPs in Parliament. The logjam continued in the Parliament today with the Congress objecting to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's statement in...
16:10
At least 116 people have died and more than 7.5 lakh affected across Pakistan due to devastating floods triggered by monsoon rains, as authorities struggled to reach thousands stranded by swollen rivers. National Disaster Management Authority said efforts were being made to reach out to...
15:32
Speaker suspends Lok Sabha MPs for five days. Lok Sabha adjourned for the day.
15:30
Vote: Should viewing porn be banned in India?
15:29
Author and columnist Chetan Bhagat's tweet against the government's decision to ban porn. @chetan_bhagat Don't ban porn. Ban men ogling, leering, brushing past, groping, molesting, abusing, humiliating and raping women. Ban non-consent. Not sex.Many Indian porn lovers woke up to a rude shock on...
15:20
Congress leader Ambika Soni on Monday asked the Narendra Modi-led government to stop politicising Rahul Gandhi's recent visit to the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and urged the ruling dispensation to initiate a dialogue with the students to end the controversy. There...
14:42
Protests by students of the Film and Television Institute of India or FTII, which is on its 53rd day today, have been endorsed by veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who questioned: Who is Gajendra Chauhan?Chatterjee, who won the Dada Saheb Phalke award three years ago, told NDTV that he had never...
14:02
Main aur mera rab hi janta hai ki asliyat kya hai. Aap log toh duty kar rahe hain isliye main aapko maaf karta hoon (I and my God know the truth. You people are just doing your duty, so I forgive you). Those were the last words of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon, seconds before he was...
13:49
India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta has accepted his two-year imprisonment on insider trading charges as his destiny while spending a low- profile life at a Massachusetts prison where he occasionally runs into his friend and hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam. Gupta, 66, currently...
13:36
Ahead of the release of Khushwant Singh's book, Portrait Of A Serial Killer. Uncollected Writings, his daughter Mala Dayal, who has edited it, is brutally frank about her father's famous soires. She believes that in later years in particular, her father, who died last year at the age of 99, was...
13:30
The families of more than 150 soldiers of an artillery unit have sought the intervention of the government to rescue their kin from a three-year forced confinement under a colonial-era charge of mutiny that the officers of the battalion have allegedly foisted on them.In representations to the...
13:16
M Karunanidhi calls for DMK to protest all across Tamil Nadu on 10th August for the complete of prohibition of liquor in the state.
13:12
The Shiv Sena has called off its alliance with the BJP in Kolhapur in Maharashtra and will contest the upcoming municipal corporation polls there on its own. The election to the 81-member Kolhapur civic body is scheduled to be held later this year. The split in Kolhapur comes in the backdrop of...
12:55
An inquest into the apparent suicide of renowned cricket writer Peter Roebuck in South Africa four years ago is set to be reopened, his former employer reported on Monday. English-born Roebuck, 55, was covering the Test series between South Africa and Australia in 2011 when he...
12:46
The flood situation in south Bengal districts today remained grim after fresh water was released from different barrages, compounding the woes of over 37 lakh people in 12 affected districts. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who stayed at state secretariat Nabanna overnight to...
12:34
The Supreme Court has appointed Fali S Nariman as amicus curiae to assist it in deciding Justice Markandey Katju's plea against resolutions passed by Parliament.The apex court said that Justice Katju should be ready to face criticism for venting his opinion on a public platform. Former Supreme...
12:27
He's an alumnus of London School of Business and Chicago University, has worked as investment banker for GE Capital and Morgan Stanley and heads the India unit of an investment fund, Zeus Caps, backed by a super wealthy Saudi Sheikh - but that's not what makes Shaurya Doval (40) special. Neither...
12:22
Rajnath Singh and Venkaiah Naidu to represent the NDA government at the All Party Meet in Parliament, PM Modi will not attend the meeting.
12:10
Research firm Moody's Analytics today said the Reserve Bank is likely to cut the benchmark rate by 0.25 per cent in its monetary policy review tomorrow as inflation is likely to remain subdued on the back of average rainfall and lower commodity prices.The Reserve Bank of India could deliver...
12:07
Breaking her silence, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today said she had not made any request to the British government for issue of travel documents to controversial former IPL chief Lalit Modi and asserted that all allegations against her were baseless and unfounded. Swaraj managed...
12:03
Two crude bombs went off around 9.30 am on Monday in North Kolkata's Tala Park area. The explosion injured a six-year-old child, who has been admitted to hospital in a critical condition. The child is a resident of the nearby slums. The bombs were hidden inside a few broken pipes. A bomb...
11:58
External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj speaks in the Rajya Sabha on her alleged links with former IPL chief Lalit Modi: Allegations leveled against me are baseless. I did not request the British government for travel documents for Lalit Modi. I have never favoured Lalit Modi. I'm ready for a...
11:48
Why Goonj founder Anshu Gupta got the Magsaysay. Read
11:46
Just in: One child has been injured in crude bomb blast in the Tallah area of Kolkata.Details awaited.
11:40
In our Anglicised middle classes, the sense of bigotry and prejudice runs through so strongly that it is frightening. I need hardly go into the matter of the troubled faced by Muslims who look for housing and jobs.There are moments, and the hanging of Yakub Memon was one, where all of the...
11:27
At least 134 people have lost their lives and over 80 lakh people affected in fresh floods due to excessive rains in worst-affected Gujarat, Rajasthan, West Bengal and OdishaWhile the death toll touched 53 in Gujarat, 48 in West Bengal, 28 died in Rajasthan and five in Odisha, a Home Ministry...
11:24
More on the Sonia Gandhi's sharp attack on the PM and the BJP:-- The PM is conspicuous by his deafening silence on the blatant transgressions by his External Affairs Minister and two Chief Ministers. -- The BJP is the author of 'resign now, debate later' principle which it had used in at least...
11:10
In an Independence Day Special series, Rediff.com celebrates India through the lives of her people. In the first piece in the series Dr Ruveda Salam, the first woman IPS officer from the Kashmir Valley, talks about the rigors of life in Kashmir, Robert Frost and the admiration she has received...
11:01
Ahead of an all-party meeting called by the government, Congress president Sonia Gandhi made a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying, the BJP's stand of discussion and dialogue first and action later is not acceptable to the Congress.We are raising a very important issue with...
10:49
President Pranab Mukherjee today will meet a select group of 250 media persons today for an informal chat at Ashoka Hall inside Rashtrapati Bhavan. Rediff.com is the first tell you of this meeting, but expect reports across newspapers tomorrow. The meeting was rescheduled to today after former...
10:04
Intensifying their 52-day-old stir for removal of BJP member Gajendra Chauhan as Film and Television Institute of India's chairman, nearly 80 agitating students will hold a protest in New Delhi on Monday.The students have been protesting against Chauhan's appointment since June 12, saying he...
10:00
The Working Group of the Board of Control for Cricket in India is scheduled to meet for the first time today to study the Lodha Committee report.According to a report in the Times of India, the committee constituted by IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla will meet in New Delhi to prepare a roadmap for IPL...
09:23
Hoping to end the deadlock in Parliament, the Bharatiya Janata Party has called for an all-party meeting on Monday after the Congress chose to skip the meet called last week. The Monsoon session has already witnessed four all-party meetings but the impasse continues.Ahead of today's all-party...
09:23
Washington state Mayor Patrick Rushing has triggered outrage after he compared United States President Barack Obama's family to monkeys and called First Lady Michelle 'gorilla face' on his Facebook post.According to website KXLY, Airway Heights Mayor Patrick Rushing was slammed when he admitted...
09:02
163 Indian fishermen, including three minors, who were released from two jails in Karachi as a goodwill gesture following a recent understanding between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in Russia, will be handed over to Indian authorities at the Wagah border...
08:16
In yet another ceasefire violation, Pakistani troops on Sunday night opened unprovoked firing on several forward posts in Jammu, Rajouri and Poonch districts of Jammu and Kashmir, prompting the Indian army to retaliate. Pakistani troops have been resorting to unprovoked small arms firing in...
08:15
The Joint Committee of Parliament examining the land acquisition bill will today seek four more days' time to submit its report. At a recent meeting of the Committee, it was decided to seek two more days' extension till August 5 to submit its report. But since the panel could not meet for...
08:15
Ramvilas Paswan's Lok Janshkati Party will today meet the Election Commission and give representation on the large scale transfer and posting of officials by the Bihar government.Paswan has charged the Nitish Kumar government with carrying large scale transfer of IAS and IPS officials with an eye...
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